One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.